During 25 years of its journey, The Daily Star has unfolded inspiring stories and taken numerous initiatives to make a difference. In alignment with this spirit, The Daily Star arranged an online campaign marking 25 years of Journalism without fear and favour where online readers were urged to submit their inspiring stories.

Fairy tales, ghost stories, myths and comics strips feature invariably highly on the priority list of young readers, and it was evident at

Eminent short story writer of Bangla literature Hasan Azizul Huq turns 77.

Book sellers are hopeful of seeing bigger crowds and good sales as the month long book fair Amar Ekushey Granthamela opened on larger premises this year, facilitating public movement.

The publication ceremony of six novels by Farzana Mitu was held at the Public Library in the capital on Saturday, said a press release

North South University (NSU) department of architecture on Thursday launched a book titled, "Dhaka – An Urban

Every day unbundles pain for this stranger in his cycle of despair.

She cruised through her grades with tremendous ease and ended up giving the school finals a year earlier than her peers. She was fifteen then.

The night was still, sacred and dark

One of the foremost modernists of the Twentieth century, Virginia Woolf gained fame for her nonlinear, free prose style which not only inspired her peers but also earned her accolade. Yesterday was her 134th birth anniversary and to commemorate the day we have put together a list of the writer’s most iconic works.

Neeman Sobhan'sbook of short stories “Piazza Bangladesh” is a collection of eleven short stories, richly layered and delicately nuanced, that convey an amazing diversity of insights into different spaces, both actual and of the mind.

It was memory-evoking undertaking for this reviewer to go through the two books written on two maestros of ghazals who belonged to two different times. The first book is titled "Talat Mahmood: The Velvet Voice" authored by Manek Premchand and the other is "Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh" by Sathya Saran. The first book has been published by Manipal University Press and the second one by HarperCollins Publishers India.

My copy of the novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif was published by Random House India from London in 2009. It's a paperback edition consisting of 364 pages, and the yellow cover shows the image of a black crow, not mangoes, being exploded. It's Hanif's debut novel and it received rave reviews from major international newspapers such as the NY Times, Washington Post and the Guardian.

Hogarth Press has commissioned a series of 'retellings' of Shakespeare plays. First to appear is Jeanette Winterson's take on The Winter's Tale.

Fractals is an encounter with a design paradigm, a certain matryoshka revelation of dolls-within-dolls.

A total of 5,316 secondary school students of 80 Chittagong schools won awards yesterday in the Bishwa Sahitya Kendra's (BSK) book

The fluffy white puffs turned to a discordant grey

I see a black darkness

Rashna set out to meet Abedin on the Saturday after the incident at the procession, and on the way to the hospital in a rickshaw, she debated whether she was doing the right thing. It wasn't her responsibility to keep in touch with Abedin, but they had shared a perilous experience together, which seemed to make them more than strangers. They were both supposed to have been cut into pieces by Taleb and his men, but had miraculously survived. It still seemed unreal to Rashna because this sort of thing only happens in Bollywood movies.

A two-day book fair on history began in Rajshahi city yesterday, organised by Bangladesh Itihas Sammilani.